Resilient socket



April 19, 1949. En- 2,467,444

RESILIENT SOCKET Filed Oct. 15, 1.945

uvvz-wrok Dame] I Halter ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 19, 1949 UNITED STATES 0F 3YRIESILTENT S'D'QKET .b'aiiii i1. it eiten Netv-York, LN. '32. ah neatieh eeteber =15, 1945, serial No. taste team's. (cr ed-are) This inventiohreiatesto resilient'snapf'fastener sockets and particularly to the type designed "for application to articles of leather, heavy fabric or the like such *as .pocket books, :gloves and similar goods. 7

My invention contemplates the :pm'vision a resilient socket adapted to be made of thin metal but, by the provision '{OfffiOllblE thicknesses of material where needed, being :given fiade'qu'ate strength against distortion undei;unusual stresses including the :stnesse's developed in assembling the parts, the socket being made preferably :fo'f two members :so bent and .i'formedias to tprnvide mutual reinforcement #of the members 'at Ithe proper places.

My invention ifurther contemplates the *pro} vision of a strong durable resilient isoicket readily i applicable'to leather goods and adapted for echnomical manufactur'e'and assembly and having ca stud entrance opening motlikely ito iinjureithe stud or to wear out and permitting the stud to be easily inserted thereinto.

The various objects of the invention will be clear f-romdahe description whichzfoilows and-from the drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a partial vertical section and partial elevational view of the socket as it appears assembled to a sheet and with its cooperating stud in place. W 4

Fig. 2 is a b ttom p'lan viewgo'f the samefwith 1e stud and the sheets :carrying the fastener omitted. U q

Fig. '3 is .a top plan view of the socket :as it appears before it risassembled to its holding cap and showing in dash-dot lines -how the top part of the socket eyelet is spreadw-hen-it is clinched to the holding cap. 7 I v Fig. 4 is "a combined vertical section and front elevationof'the same. I g A I Fig. 5 is a fragmentary vertical section -of. a modified form of the socketbeiore its assembly tothecap.

Fig. 7 is a similar v'ie'w of still another 'm'odi fled form of th'e'socket.

In the practical embodiment of the invention shown by *way "of example fin Figs. 1 and '2, the sheet of leather, heavyifab'rfic 'orthe like l'h ear ries the non-resilient stud 1! zihztheiusual manner, the stud being provided with (a neck I 2 3 ml the reception of the open resilient wir'e ring 1 3 of the (socket afterthe head of the-stud hasbeen forced past the .ring, all in a :manner which ts Well understood.

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Z8, tir-if the article in which the socket is usedis dropped or s'teppedbm Below the eyelet 1 are mrember ts is eiilargedingdiameter thereby forming the upstanding cylindrical wall {[9 and the substantially-flatanmilar sheuieer'zt extending :o'utwa'rdly from the an a distance slightly greater :thanhali the thicknessoi the ring, and

sent/ting as the top wall :of the ring-holding recess 14. Thelheight-of the'wall I9 is-sli'ghtlyghalt'fl than the ring thickness, and "at the lower end of said w'all is arranged the outstanding substantial-ly flatfflan'ge '2 l formingpart of the base of the' socket and to which-is secured the correspond mg base portion of'the m'e'mbe'r l 6 "as by "bending or rblling overthereon the peripheral rim-22.

The annular flange 23 extending inwardlyirom thelrim z z forms the base of the member i6 and 'stl'ifens andreinforces the' fl'a'nge 2| and together therewith iformthe base ef the socket, sjaid socket base *bein'gxarranged onone side of the sheet of materialfz' i. The flange 23 is continued inwardly past the wall it about half the thickness 'of the ring to a point substantially directly below "the eyelet i1 and "at-said point is floubled outwardly eh itself as at the bend 25 up to the wan to to provide the double thickness of metal forming the bottom wall of the ring-holding recess. ,At said'wall T9, the member F6 is bentupw'ardly into contact with :s'a'id wall to form the upright outer cylindrical wall 26 of the nn mcmmg recess and to provide the double thickness of metal shown in Figs. 1 and i asamutual reinforcementpi the walls 159 :and zt. The uppermost end of the wall 26 dieing Iain contact with "the shoulder '20, it reinforcessaid shoulder against possibility 6f sagging when the "socket is assembled, while "the shoulder in turn braces the wall 26 against the pressure of an enteringstud. 7

:It itvillqbe noted j'thalt by the pro-Vision er the bend 253theentrance opening '21 'forthestud into the interior :of the tinembers, is surrounded. by a rounded edge, thereby avoiding imarring r wear of the stud which might otherwise occur :after repeated use. it will :be :iurth'er notecl two thicknesses :of metal are used throughout the base :and rthe znai'or part :of the i in'g 'hdliing re;- ce's's therebydnsurin'g the n etenti'on o'f 'th'e critical accurate dimensions required for proper operation of the socket by the strengthening and reinforcement of the parts where needed, while permitting comparatively thin metal to be employed with resulting economy.

The attaching or eyelet part I! of the socket need not and should not be made of more than one thickness, since it is intended that said part be deformed by spreading during assembly of the socket. Said eyelet I1 is passed through a suitable opening 28 in the sheet 24 and into contact with the anvil portion 29 of the cap [8 when the socket is to be assembled, the cap being arranged on that side of the sheet 24 opposite to that on which the base is arranged. With the parts in the positions described, the cap and socket are forced toward each other and against the sheet 24, whereby the upper end of the eyelet is spread by the anvil portion 29 of the cap into the position shown in Fig. 1 and in dash-dot lines in Figs. 3 and 4 to distort the upper end of the eyelet and to clinch the socket to the cap with the sheet 24 therebetween.

To insure proper spreading of the eyelet without such pressure on the socket as might distort the ring-holding recess or the stud entrance opening, the spreadable upper portion of the eyelet may be corrugated, grooved or scored as along the upright or longitudinal lines 30 to form lines of weakness along which the eyelet may split or rupture if the spreading force stretches the eyelet beyond its elastic limit.

In the form of the invention shown in Fig. 6, not only is a flared entrance opening 3| provided for the easy insertion thereinto of the stud l l and for guiding the stud into place, but the height of the eyelet portion 32 is reduced by arranging the flanges 33 and 34 of the socket base so that the flanges form a conical surface tapering upwardly and inwardly from the rim 35. This arrangement also permits the sheets 36 and 31 carrying the socket and stud respectively to be brought quite closely together in the fastened positions thereof.

As shown in Fig. 5, the base 40 of the socket may taper in the opposite direction from that shown in Fig. 6, that is, downwardly and inwardly from the rim 4|. Such arrangement of the base is advantageous in those cases where the sheet 42 is thinner than usual, in that the gap which might otherwise appear between the base and the sheet is avoided. In Fig. 5 is also shown a modified form 43 of the socket piece l6 previously described. To further reinforce the shoulder 20 in this form of the invention, a lip or flange 44 is turned inwardly from the top of the upright wall 45, said lip forming the top wall of the ringholding recess 46 and taking, through the pressure of the ring thereagainst, the major part of the stress incident to the upward movement of the stud into the socket. It will be understood without further illustration or description that such lip may be provided at the upper end of the wall IQ of Figs. 1, 4 and 6 if desired as will now be obvious.

In the form of the invention shown in Fig. 7, the socket member 50 is provided with the ringholding shoulder 5i at the lower part'of the eyelet 52, but the wall I!) is eliminated and replaced by the base flange 53 tapering downwardly and outwardly from the shoulder to form a conical part which terminates in a fiat peripheral portion 54. The other socket member 55 diifers from the members It and 43 in that an outwardly turned lip 58 is provided thereon at the upper 4 part of the upright wall 51 of the recess to brace the flange 53 and to prevent distortion of the socket base and shoulder. The upstanding cylindrical wall 51 surrounding the outermost part 0! the ring-holding recess 58 is in turn braced by the conical flange 53 against outward movement under stress.

In all of the forms of the invention, it will be seen that a two piece resilient socket is provided in which the various walls of the socket forming members are so bent as either to double the thickness of the material at the areas where the greatest stresses occur, or to arrange the walls in mutually bracing relation for added strength with the employment of a minimum amount and thickness of material, and that there is provided a socket well adapted for economical manufacture and practical use.

Various changes may obviously be made in those specific forms of the invention which have been shown and described as illustrative within the scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. A two-piece resilient socket comprising a first member of a single piece of material having a base and having a part extending from the base and constituting two rigid and mutually perpendicular sides of a channel shaped three-sided ring-holding recess, a resilient ring in and inwardly overhanging the recess, the base being doubled back on itself at its inner periphery to provide two adjacent thicknesses of material at the bottom of the recess, and a second member having a spreadable eyelet part and having a right angle bend at an end of said eyelet part to form a rigid shoulder adjacent the top of the recess parallel to the bottom of the recess and in contact with the extreme top end portion of the other of said two sides of the recess, said second member having an outstanding base secured to and reinforcing the base of the first member.

2. In a resilient socket, a pair of members arranged in mutually reinforcing relation and each having a plurality of spaced apart bends therein to form a ring-holding three-sided recess and a resilient ring in and inwardly overhanging the inner edge of the recess, one of said members having an eyelet portion terminating in an annular horizontal rigid shoulder constituting the top of the recess, the other of said members having a rigid cylindrical wall of uniform diameter bounding the outermost side of the recess and having an extreme top end part in contact with the shoulders, said other member having a doubled over portion extending inwardly from the lower edge of and perpendicular to the wall forming the bottom side of the recess and having a rounded inner edge surrounding a stud entrance opening therein, each of said members having a base portion secured to and in contact with the base portion of the other member.

3. In a resilient socket, a pair of members arranged in mutually reinforcing relation and to form a three-sided rigid ring-holding recess, and a resilient ring in the recess, one of said members having an eyelet portion terminating in an outstanding rigid shoulder adjacent the top of the recess, the other member having a rigid cylindrical wall constituting the outermost side of the recess and in contact at its extreme upper end with and perpendicular to the shoulder, said other member having a portion of double thickness extending inwardly and perpendicularly from the wall substantially parallel to the shoulder and forming the bottom wall of the recess, the innermost edge of said last mentioned portion being rounded.

4. In a resilient socket, an eyelet member having part thereof in position to form a base and another part in position to form at least one rigid cylindrical side wall of a channel-shaped ringholding recess, a resilient wire ring in and projecting inwardly beyond the recess, and a second member having a base secured to the base of the eyelet member, the base of the second member having a bend at its inner periphery to provide a bottom wall of the recess perpendicular to said side wall and of two thicknesses of material, said second member having a cylindrical wall extending upwardly from said bend and in contact with the inner face of said one side wall of the recess.

5. In a resilient socket, an eyelet member provided with an outstanding substantially horizontal shoulder and a base, and a second member having a rigid upstanding cylindrical wall of uniform diameter, the top of said wall engaging the under face of the outer periphery of the shoulder and an inwardly extending rigid flange of two thicknesses of material at an end edge of and substantially perpendicular to the wall and in substantially parallel spaced relation to the shoulder to form a channel-shaped ring-holding recess between the shoulder, the flange and the wall, the shoulder constituting the top of the recess, the flange constituting the bottom of the recess, and the wall constituting the outer side of the recess, the recess being open at its inner side, a resilient ring in the recess, and a base on the second member secured to the base of the eyelet member, the innermost edges of the shoulder and of the flange being of substantially the same diameter.

8. In a, two piece resilient socket of the type adapted to be clinched to a sheet by a cooperating anvil-carrying cap, an eyelet member comprising an upstanding cylindrical eyelet part terminating at its lower end in a substantially fiat outstanding shoulder, a cylindrical wall depending from the outer periphery of the shoulder and terminating at its lower end in a substantially flat outstanding base, said wall being of uniform diameter throughout the height thereof, and a second member surrounding the major part of a channel-shaped recess for the reception of a ring, said second member having a substantially flat base in contact with the base of the eyelet member, a rim on the base of the second member inwardly overhanging the periphery of the base of the eyelet member, a substantially 180 bend at the inner periphery of the base of the second member doubling said base back on itself to form two contacting thicknesses of material perpendicular to the wall and constituting the bottom of the recess, a, second cylindrical wall upstanding from the upper of said two thicknesses and in contact with the inner surface of the depending wall of the eyelet member to provide two thicknesses of material at the outer side of the recess, said second wall touching the under face of the shoulder, said shoulder constituting the top of the recess, and a resilient wire ring in the recess and inwardly overhanging the shoulder and the 180 bend.

7. A ring-holding socket consisting only of two pieces of sheet material and an open ring of round Wire, one of said pieces comprising a rigid, unyielding, upright, continuous and uninterrupted cylindrical wall forming the outer side of anannular channel-shaped recess in the socket and also forming the inner of two thicknesses at said outer side, the inner diameter of the wall being uniform throughout the height thereof, said height being greater than the diameter of the wire of said ring, the recess being open at the side opposite said wall, a flat annular continuous and uninterrupted shoulder extending inwardly from the lower end of the wall and integrally joined thereto by a rigid continuous and uninterrupted bend, said shoulder forming the lowermost side of the recess and being of lesser width than the diameter of the wire of said open ring, the ring being arranged in the recess to overhang inwardly over the innermost edge of said shoulder, a bend subtending approximately at the innermost edge of the shoulder, said bend continuing outwardly in the form of an annular flange having its innermost peripheral part in contact with the under face of said shoulder and providing the lower of two thicknesses of material along the bottom of the recess, the other of said two pieces comprising a second upright rigid cylindrical wall in contact with the outer surface of the first mentioned wall and thereby providing two thicknesses of material throughout the outer side of the recess, a substantially right angle bend at the top of the second wall and integrally joining the second wall to a second horizontal inwardly extending shoulder forming the top of the recess and in contact with the upper edge of the first mentioned wall, a second substantially right angled bend at the inner edge of the second shoulder joining said shoulder to an eyelet, and a bend at the lower edge of said second wall joining said wall to a second outstanding annular flange in contact with the upper face of the flange of the first mentioned one of said pieces, and a rim on the outer edge of said first mentioned piece having a bend extending past the periphery of the second flange and in contact with the upper face of the second flange.

DANIEL I. REITER.

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